 Piotr M. Organa |
My new R800 prints dark I tried updated drivers, different profiles and papers, tech support, internet - nothing. Prints are great, but too dark. I'm going to order custom profiles - my last hope. Any advice?
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BetterPhoto Member |
Hi, Are you 100 percent sure your monitor is properly calibrated. Are you using a Mac or PC. If using a mac I may be able to help as I had the same problem.
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Piotr M. Organa |
Thanks for responding, Simon! I do have PC. No hardware to calibrate monitor. Online tests that I tried and Adobe Gamma look ok...
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BetterPhoto Member |
Piotr, I ended up buying a Gretag Macbeth eyeone 11 and saw an improvement straight away against software alone. If you use photoshop try Edit>convert to Profile then under destination space select the profile for spr800 and you paper type. I try to stick to epson papers. i know it will sound silly but is moniter set to the right SB mode. I have three settings and if you are not on the correct one your prints will not agree with your monitor .The correct setting for my Mitsubishi monitor is SB1. Simon.
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BetterPhoto Member |
Piotr, I ended up buying a Gretag Macbeth eyeone 11 and saw an improvement straight away against software alone. If you use photoshop try Edit>convert to Profile then under destination space select the profile for spr800 and you paper type. I try to stick to epson papers. I know it will sound silly but is monitor set to the right SB mode. I have three settings and if you are not on the correct one your prints will not agree with your monitor .The correct setting for my Mitsubishi monitor is SB1. Simon.
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Piotr M. Organa |
What's SB? :)
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BetterPhoto Member |
Hi Piotr, On my Mitsubishi Diamond Pro Monitor there are three SB or Super Bright functions. SB OFF - for text base images, SB 1 - for images, SB2 for watching dvds. Each doubles the brightness of the screen after you have calibrated the monitor. I don't know if your monitor would have the same feature. s.
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Piotr M. Organa |
Thanks and no, do not have those. I think that a custom made profile is a neat, clean approach. It will let me keep monitor colour at the setting of my choice (bp compatible, for example) and yet print decent color. I tried homemade settings and do not like them.
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Piotr M. Organa |
Hi, Simon, Someone from Epson tech support, who actually has R800, advised me to try Photo Enhance setting in Color Management (Photoshop), instead of usual ICM - ICM off. I did. From the Tone menu I picked Vivid and got pretty decent print! I'll wait for daylight to see it better and experiment more and will let you know. B&W came out OK, too.
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